Collection: JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH - Plant Collection

For the past twenty-five years Connecticut born artist JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH has undertaken the full-time pursuit of mastery in and exploration of low relief sculpture. Fifteen of those years were spent as a contractual relief sculptor for Matthews International Bronze, generating plastiline originals for architectural metal-casting applications. This position afforded WELSH with the opportunity to engage dynamically diverse subject matter for governmental, nonprofit and private clientele across the United States and around the world.

While working professionally in bas relief bronze, WELSH has also had the pleasure of exhibiting his personal work within the United States and Japan – completing his first solo exhibition in Tokyo in January 2014. In 2015, WELSH returned to the United States permanently after spending three years living in Tokyo – where he flourished as a privately-funded fine art sculptor. 

JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH was welcomed by the National Sculpture Society (NSS) as a newly elected member in 2016. Later in the same year, WELSH'S sculpture, Mayflies and Trout Rise, Okutama River, was awarded the Pietro and Alfrieda Montana Memorial Prize for “an outstanding work, either carved or cast” in the 83rd Annual Awards Exhibition at the Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.

In 2017, WELSH completed his second solo exhibition of 31 low relief sculptures, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Concurrently, his work was also juried into the National Sculpture Society 84th Annual Awards Exhibition – once again appearing at the Brookgreen Gardens.

In 2018, his work was once again selected by jury to be included in the 85th Annual Awards Exhibition at the Brookgreen Gardens. Further, his accepted sculpture was selected as the featured promotional image for the 85th Annual Exhibition by NSS. In July of the same ear, WELSH's sculpture was juried into the NSS 86th Annual Awards Exhibition, where he won the Marcel Jovine President's Prize for his base relief, Northern Torsion, Pike and Buill. This work was later displayed at the NSS Gallery in Manhatten.

In 2020, WELSH's sculpture, Cormorant and Moon Jellyfish, was juried into the NSS 87th Annual Awards Exhibition - making it the fifth consecutive year that his work was accepted into this exclusive national show. This piece later won The Anna Hyatt Huntington Award and a Brookgreen Medal, thereby also securing a place at the NSS Gallery in Manhattan as part of The Prize Winner's Exhibition, 2020 - 2021.

Over the years WELSH's sculpture and commentary have been included in various publications. He has acted as a grant-funded community educator, a sculpture judge for the National Scholastic Art Show in Pennsylvania and has lectured in art educational settings both within the U.S. and abroad.

JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH now resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he continues to pursue and explore his personal artistic vision through the ongoing development of his private sculptural collections.

For the past 26 years, JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH has dedicated himself to the pursuit of excellence in low relief sculpture. 

Fifteen of those years were spent as a contractual relief sculpture for Matthews International bronze, generating plastiline originals for architectural metal-casting applications. 

In 2012, WELSH moved to Japan to enrich his career as a fine artist - and in 2014, he displayed his first solo exhibition at the Frederick Harris Gallery in Tokyo. Upon returning to the United States in 2015, WELSH opened his own studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

In 2017, WELSH presented his second solo exhibition in Colorado - and in 2019, his sculptural collection debuted at Wiford Gallery in Santa Fe. 

Since becoming an Elected Member of the National Sculpture Society in 2016, WELSH has exhibited in eight (8) National Sculpture Society Annual Award Exhibitions earning top prizes including the Pietro & Alfrieda Montana Memorial Prize (2016), the Marcel Jovine's President's Prize (2019 & 2022), and the Anna Hyatt Huntington Award (2020). 

In 2021, WELSH was commissioned to create the 50th Brookgreen Medal. His medal, entitled, Days of Silence - Nights of Song, was debuted at the Brookgreen Gardens in May 2022 - where he presented its development via lecture. 

WELSH's sculptures have also been recognized in the 15th ARC Exhibition (2020) as well as juried into the National Wildlife Museum's Summer Exhibition (2022) and the Mountain Oyster Club's 54th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show (2023). 

WELSH has acted as a sculpture judge for both National Sculpture Society as well as the National Scholastic Art Show and has lectured in art educational settings both within the U.S. and abroad. 

His work has been featured in American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, Art of the West Magazine, Gray's Sporting Journal, and Fine Art Connoisseur.